Application of optimization technique for crop planning to improve farm productivity of ICAR-RCER, Patna, India

Abstract

Use of Linear Programming employing Simplex method under application of optimization
techniques in agriculture for maximization of profit or minimization of loss is being practiced since
long. It gives an opportunity for planning and better allocation of resources in agriculture because
one gets an opportunity to identify the interventions in agriculture, which are more profit, oriented
either due to less input cost or more income from outputs. In the present paper, various scenarios
have been generated by allocating various parcels of farm land under different crops and it was
observed that existing practice is least profit oriented and there is fairly good scope of improvement
in profit from farm.